I met a traveller from an antique land Who said:Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Ozymandias'.

Where is the antique glory now become, What whilom wont in women to appear? Where be the brave achievements doen by some? Where be the battles, where the shield and spear, And all the conquests, which them high did rear, That matter made for famous poet's verse, And boastful men so oft abashed to hear? Bene theyall dead, and laid in doleful hearse? Or doen they only sleep, and shall again reverse?

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 4, stanza1.

We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, Thou art noble and nude and antique.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads,'Dolores', stanza 7.